Rik Mayall - Sound Test for Bad News

From the Comic Strip Presents series. Rik Mayall plays the bassist of notorious Heavy Metal band 'Bad News' here we see Rik Mayall with Brian May wig doing a sound test, the ending is priceless.

[@jerichothedrifter60]

That will never not make me laugh

[@remosasso8027]

Hey mister bass man
Catch the fuckin night bus home 😂

[@jimhogg6460]

Sabre tooth horse

[@silver_stringz]

Same here, great sketch! The man was hilarious.

[@andrewdods2236]

Bad News. A work of comic genius :-D

[@chrisbarlow2131]

Simply......the best!

[@smashdalde9713]

"who's that playing bass...?"......."WHO IS IT??!!" lol!

[@peteandurnot]

Colin......stop crying!!

[@ARBC2024]

"Slide your finger, down the fretboard" .... "Yeah but I've got a cut" ... "........Can you use a different finger?" ... "Alright I'll try, but it might mean using a different string>"

[@leppard50]

Love this! HaHa. I laughed so hard the first time I saw it.

[@jerichothedrifter60]

No, I'm Trevor, it's my brother Colin you want, he's frightfully groovy

[@jazzx251]

So true - people never soundcheck at performance volume, and get surprised when they play for real!

[@Lou_Mavs]

I can attest that your statement is true. I’ve played with a drummer that would sound check at practice level and he’d blow out our eardrums come showtime. I’ve never seen so many people leave during the first song. Lol.

[@Yourweakminds]

Saw them at donnington. Hated them at the beginning of the set - adored them by the end. 🤣

[@nosajdas]

Still better than that Spinal Tap most people drool over

[@chrisbarlow2131]

Brothheed ! Yes it is better than Spinal Tap. And it was released before Spinal Tap too which most people forget.

[@Syklonus]

I like Spinal Tap too, but in my opinion Bad News is better. It's just a shame because Spinal Tap became this huge feature film thing, and there's no way a small low budget British TV sketch piece could compete with that.

[@DarkpowderUK]

I wonder where Spinal Tap concept came from hmm?

[@heftymoreganic4158]

@@DarkpowderUK Didn't this come out like 1 month before Spinal Tap? I'd be bloody impressed if they managed to turn around a full film, shooting, editing, mixing, mastering, turning all sounds up to some number above 10 etc etc in only a month.... in fact that probably explains the size of the stone henge

[@StratsRUs]

Spinal Tap is legendary.You can't have watched it properly.

[@Goodkiwibloke]

Bad News on the road was comedy gold from The Comic Strip. More Bad News was not as good, but still very funny. I still have the LP of the soundtrack, somewhere..and I have the entire Comic Strip collection in my DVD stack. A Fist Full of Travellers Checks is hilarious

[@nk_rmmr]

This is soooo hilarious.

[@serverlan763]

"You can go a bit higher can't you i know"

[@DVDfeverGames]

Hey, Mr Bassman

[@BaronVonPenguin]

I shacked up with punks

[@jimhogg6460]

Dyed my hair all sorts of excotic colours

[@damiansmith5536]

@@jimhogg6460 I was like... a crazy man....!!!!

[@BaronVonPenguin]

Damian Smith look you said you weren’t going to ask me that question

[@andyhowpog]

Almost had a drugs overdose!

[@damiansmith5536]

@@BaronVonPenguin ha... meter ran out!!

[@chairboy]

Colin grigson is a banker...

[@BaronVonPenguin]

Kevin Reid you’re thinking of his brother Trevor

[@DavidCoverdale2000]

Trevor's far cooler. He'll be round at his pad.

[@richardhockey8442]

a 'merchant banker'?

[@richardhockey8442]

Ade Edmondosn as 'Vim Fuego'

[@strangelee4400]

Hey Mr bass man...

[@malcolmmitchell6529]

Totally ruined by incessant ads.